It is also a textbook for graduate courses. The whole book (21 chapters) is a comprehensive reference work on principles, environments, and ecological technology. For the undergraduate college course in ecology, Part 1 (Chapters 1 through 10) and Chapters 15, 16, and 21 (a total of 13 chapters), with Part 2 and other chapters in Part 3 as reference for specific field or laboratory work, is recommended.īook No. Also this group of chapters provides a reference base for campus-wide courses in "man and environment" or "human ecology."īook No. These eight chapters provide a review of ecology for the concerned citizen, the student of the social sciences, the humanities, or the professions (law, medicine, engineering, and so forth), and for the specialist in science, government, or industry.
This involves the macroscopic or "big picture" ecology as it relates to human affairs: Chapters 1 through 4, plus 9, 15, 16, and 21. To avoid this contingency I have structured the third edition so that it is three books in one, each of which can serve a dif ferent purpose.īook No. In revising textbooks one worries about the "dinosaur syndrome." Sometimes textbooks become so enlarged in successive editions that the brevity and simplicity that made them successful in the early editions is lost. Illustrative material and references have been more than doubled, and two-thirds of the figures and tables are new to the third edition. All chapters from the second edition have been extensively revised three completely new chapters have been added to Part 1, and Part 3 has been completely rewritten. Thus, to many persons ecology now stands for the study of "the totality of man and environment." Although the same general format which students and teachers found useful in the previous edition has been retained, the third edition is greatly expanded and updated in light of the inereasing importance of the subject in human affairs. People in general have accepted the root meaning of the word "ecology," which refers to the whole environmental "house" in which we live. The holistic approach and ecosystem theory, as emphasized in the first two editions of this book, are now matters of world-wide concern. Practice has caught up with theory in ecology. ODUM – Alumni Foundation Professor of Zoology – University of Georgia – Athens, GeorgiaįUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY 1971 ( Third Edition ) : W. No further update, only historical document of botanical science!Įugene P. ODUM - Fundamentals of Ecologyīotany online 1996-2004. Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook - Prefaces - Eugene P.
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